Euterpe, is that you? Artistic notes. Conversations with Russian artists in emigration and in the metropolis. Volume 2. Music. Opera

The book contains the author"s responses, a famous philologist and writer, on the events of artistic life in Russia and in the West, who were published in Russian and, mainly, foreign press over the past fifteen years. The book consists of five sections: "ballet", "painting", "music", "Opera" and "Theater and Tenth Muse" (i.e. theater and cinema) They include articles and notes about exhibitions, performances, concerts, reviews for various cultural events, thanks to which the book is a unique cultural chronicle of the era of the Soviet system and at the same time a chronicle of art events in the West of the 1990s associated with Russian culture. West in Russia and "Russia in the West" - so determines your angle of view. Author"s articles are organically complemented by numerous interviews (in the overwhelming majority in ordinary), which he took from Russian culture workers - artists, artists, dancers, choreographers and musicians living, mainly in the West, or in artists, anyway related to Russia . Among them - Dyagilel ballerins, ballerina and soloists of the legendary "Russian ballet ballets Monte Carlo", leading dancers (Mikhail Baryshnikov), composers of the Russian musical avant-garde (Schnit, Gubyadulin, Denisov), outstanding conductors and performers (Christmas, Barshai, Kremer), artists -Avanadists "New Wave" (Oscar Rabin, Kulakov) or representatives of Russian artistic dynasties (R. Dobzhinsky, E.Serbryakov, S.Gollerbach, T. Fabergej, etc) The book is illustrated by rare photos